For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

F2 cars have downforce; they’re quick. But it’s difficult for your brain and eyes to keep up with everything that’s going on once you’re in an F1 car. You get used to it and you learn to stay calm, because if you react too quickly the opposite will happen. Being more relaxed is when it becomes more natural and controlled.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

The wisest have the most authority.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.